Black Swan Review: Natalie Portman – The Black Swan
Black Swan Release Date:
Black Swan will be released on 3 December 2010 (USA)
Black Swan Storyline:
Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side – a recklessness that threatens to destroy her
Black Swan Latest Trailer:
Trailer Description:
While vying for the coveted lead roles in a production of Swan Lake, a veteran ballerina (Portman) enters into a twisted friendship with a promising new dancer (Kunis) that threatens to consume her.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4024108569/
Black Swan User Review:
Truly, this is a director at the top of his craft: Aronofsky masterfully draws attention to the brute physicality of the ballet – straining limbs, skipped meals, torn ligaments and bloodied feet. The narrative is taut throughout, framed in stark blacks and whites, and propelled with a constant nervous energy by cinematographer Matthew Libatique’s tight cinéma vérité follow shots. The sound editing is similarly claustrophobic, amplifying Nina’s every rasping breath or compulsive scratch of skin. And Portman is already generating Oscar buzz for her performance: possibly the best of her career.